A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with the photos going to a Black history museum in South Carolina. Harvard University has agreed to transfer ownership of a set of 175-year-old daguerreotype photographs depicting enslaved individuals, including Renty and his daughter Delia, to the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina. This decision follows a prolonged legal battle initiated by Tamara Lanier, who identified the subjects as her ancestors. The images were originally commissioned in 1850 by Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz to support racist pseudoscientific theories. Lanier argued that the photographs were taken without her ancestors' consent and sought their return. While courts upheld Harvard's legal ownership, the university has now agreed to relinquish the images, marking a significant step in acknowledging and rectifying historical injustices. Source: NY Time...